Quick Heal Technologies, (known as Quick Heal) is an Indian multinational cybersecurity software company, headquartered in

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, Maharashtra,

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. The company was formerly known as CAT Computer Services (P) Ltd and was started as a computer service centre in 1995. The company was renamed as Quick Heal Technologies Pvt. Ltd. in 2007. The company develops

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for consumers, servers,

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environments and small and medium enterprises and sells products directly to customers or through its partner channel.DQChannels.com: Quick Heal top in channel satisfaction survey
/ref> Its enterprise product offerings operate under the brand name Seqrite. The companies products are regularly tested with features and abilities compared against other similar products. Quick Heal develops its own security suite and leverages a combination of signature-based and signatureless detection technologies to detect and block known and unknown threats in real-time.

History

Quick Heal was founded in 1993, as "CAT Computer Services (P) Ltd" by Kailash Katkar and Sanjay Katkar and renamed in 2007. Quick Heal Technologies Ltd is listed on

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and NSE.

Timeline

In 2010, Quick Heal received an investment of ₹60

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from Sequoia Capital And new branch offices were opened in

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. In 2012, offices were opened in Japan and US, and in 2013, offices were opened in

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and

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. In 2016, Quick Heal Technologies acquired an IT security firm Junco Technologies to launch Seqrite Services. In 2016, Quick Heal Technologies launched its

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which valued the company at a market value of ₹1,500

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